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Ensemble Learning for Free with Evolutionary Algorithms ?

Christian Gagné a1, Michèle Sebag () b2, Marc Schoenauer () c2, Marco Tomassini d3

GECCO (2007) 1782-1789

Abstract: Evolutionary Learning proceeds by evolving a population of classifiers, from which it generally returns (with some notable exceptions) the single best-of-run classifier as final result. In the meanwhile, Ensemble Learning, one of the most efficient approaches in supervised Machine Learning for the last decade, proceeds by building a population of diverse classifiers. Ensemble Learning with Evolutionary Computation thus receives increasing attention. The Evolutionary Ensemble Lear\-ning (EEL) approach presented in this paper features two contributions. First, a new fitness function, inspired by co-evolution and enforcing the classifier diversity, is presented. Further, a new selection criterion based on the classification margin is proposed. This criterion is used to extract the classifier ensemble from the final population only (Off-line) or incrementally along evolution (On-line). Experiments on a set of benchmark problems show that Off-line outperforms single-hypothesis evolutionary learning and state-of-art Boosting and generates smaller classifier ensembles.

  • Domain : Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence
  • Keywords : Evolutionary Computation – Ensemble Learning
 
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  • Submitted on: Monday, 30 April 2007 10:35:17
  • Updated on: Sunday, 14 October 2007 09:10:09
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